... would YOU download a plant?

On today's episode of "I wasn't going to, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!"

You can begin your plant downloading adventures today!

Ex-retail worker here that spent a lot of time in aisles, counting inventory, etc.

Steal whatever you want; I don't care. Not my job to look after that shit and I wasn't paid enough for it anyway.

I'd never considered this. Thanks for the idea, sign!

Pinching off a leaf seems icky, but fallen leaves are fair game.

This is likely to prevent people from cutting the plants and later saying they picked up a fallen bit.

I wasn’t thinking about it before, but I’m thinking about it now.

Is it a crime to enjoy a succulent leaf?

YOU'RE STEALING OUR TRASH! REEEEEEEEE!

If you clip a healthy plant without asking the owner first, you're a dick. But if I see you do it at a store, no I didn't. Cause the store made $2,550,000 while I was typing this.

Funny, I'm actually more inclined to do it now.

It's not theft, it's basically dumpster diving for living things. Living things that can grow in dirt with some water. They just see lost profit not an actual product loss.

Download in progress

half of my succulents at home are from leaves that have fallen off in stores. sue me.

My father enjoys grafting plants, he has an apple tree with 15 types of apples on it. Come to find out he's been snipping tiny branches off apple trees at Home Depot....

Kind of reads like an instruction, not a discouragement.

It’s one thing to ban snipping off nodes and such but fallen fuckin succulent leaves? Get the fuck out of here lol

Well how much is it worth? You going to ring me up for a leaf?

In the corpora-fascist future, all plants are copyrighted variants and you merely purchase a license to possess one plant.

I love how their primary focus here is teaching you the term and only secondary concern is anti-theft.

Maybe it is illegal in the sense that some succulents ARE invasive species

I do know that people go to garden shops looking for free material for growth lying on the ground, which id argue is unnecessary. Most people who own plants or a garden will happily share with you the fact if you show the ittyest bittiest piece of interest in them, and also share plants as well.

Hell I regularly give out succulent saplings for free or as a gift to friends and people I meet.

So yeah, you can just ask man, it's no biggie

I don't approve of shoplifting, but their cute new word makes me want to try it.

"no PLEASE don't spend half your paycheck here then get something for free :((( Pay me more money? I report u!!!!!"

Anyone know what store this is?

We really do live in a dystopia.

So many examples every day.

This sign is giving me ideas

Shouldn't have given it a fun portmanteau name, then.

Theft of garbage. Sure, store owner, whatever.

Oh yeah? Well now I'm just going to proplift even harder!

So you're saying I should just take the whole plant.

… picking up…

No, Carl. I clearly up loaded that shit into my biodiversity.

Things should not be alive if humans can't confine or use them for our capitalist purposes!

You can't, like, OWN Mother Nature man....

Heck yeah I would! Oh look, here's a nice one. I think I'll put it next to the car I downloaded

"Ворованное лучше растёт."

Yes I would! A weed plant!

Yes

Great… the pirates now have a new argument to beat everyone to death with.